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Seanchan posted...

Sigh...it's time to take it easy on the squats and deadlifts until after Labor Day. Give the issue time to heal. I still want to do light weights just to maintain form and muscle memory but that's about it. There's just no other way and I need to get past this problem already as it's continued to be a hindrance for most of the year.

Yep, reminds me when I had my hip issues. I tried to fight through it, but it just kept getting worse, and my lifts were going from 300+ pounds, to 200, to 180, to 150 and it was just clearly not getting better. I rested 2 months before I jumped back on squats and deadlifts, and did a lot of low rep, low weight supplemental exercises (extensions, hamstring curls, hip abductor exercises) in the mean time to keep my lower body at least active. Shit sucks not being able to do a core lift, but you'll feel a lot better once you can build your strength back up and start hitting it hard.

Did my back day today, started with deadlifts. Went good! Straight up ripped the entire piece of skin(callous) on the bottom of my ring finger, so that was fun. haven't done that in a while.